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DiD any of you hear about Frances not so subtle admonishment to Iran?
    #7422726 - 09/18/07 08:35 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/18/france.iran/index.html



TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's foreign ministry criticized France on Monday for a blunt warning over the weekend that Europe must prepare for war if Tehran continues to flout international demands to stop producing nuclear fuel.


Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, shown here in April 2007, criticized France on Monday.

1 of 2 "We hope that such statements are superficial and do not reflect France's realistic and strategic points of view," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said Monday, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a televised interview Sunday that European nations should consider sanctions outside the U.N. framework if Iran continues to ignore a Security Council call to halt its production of enriched uranium -- and he added, "We must prepare ourselves for the worst."

Asked what "the worst" meant, Kouchner -- co-founder of the the Nobel Prize-winning relief agency Doctors Without Borders -- replied, "That is war, sir."

Kouchner quickly added that he does not believe war to be imminent, but that further sanctions are. He said major French companies including those in the energy sector are being told to stop any further investments in Iran.

Hosseini also said that the use of "convulsive words" ran counter to "the historical, cultural and civilizational dignity and position of France," according to IRNA.


"At a time when the issue of Iran's peaceful nuclear activities was removed from the agenda of the EU ministerial session recently, Kouchner's claims are not only in contradiction with EU's macro policies on the Islamic Republic of Iran but are also aimed at questioning credibility and competency of the International Atomic Energy Agency," said Hosseini.

The IAEA, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency, says it has been able to verify that Iran's declared nuclear material has not been diverted from peaceful use. While the IAEA has been unable to verify some "important aspects" regarding the nature and scope of Iran's nuclear work, the agency and Iranian officials agreed on a plan to resolve all outstanding issues, Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei said Monday.

While France opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Kouchner's remarks on Iran follow previous hard-line statements by France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy. In August, the conservative Sarkozy said a nuclear-armed Iran was "not acceptable."

"I think there is a new France since Sarkozy came to power," Dominique Moisi, an analyst at the French Institute on Foreign Relations, told CNN. "There is a new style of diplomatic content, and obviously there is a new relationship with the U.S. and Washington."

Meanwhile, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East Gen. John Abizaid said Monday the U.S. and its allies can "live with" a nuclear-armed Iran, but they should continue pressuring the Islamic Republic to keep it from developing an atomic bomb.

Abizaid, who retired from the Army in March after three years leading U.S. Central Command, told a Washington think tank that Iran's leadership is pursing "reckless" policies and seeks to dominate the Middle East.

"We need to press the international community as hard as we possibly can, and the Iranians, to cease and desist on the development of a nuclear weapon, and we should not preclude any option that we may have to deal with it," he said.

But he added, "I believe the United States, with our great military power, can contain Iran."

"Let's face it -- we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with nuclear powers as well," he told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

"Clearly the development of a bomb in Iranian hands will cause other nations in the region to move in a like direction, and in a very unstable region like that, that is not good news," Abizaid said.

But he said the United States "can deliver clear messages to the Iranians that makes it clear to them that while they may develop one or two nuclear weapons, they'll never be able to compete with us in our true military might and power." E-mail to a friend

CNN's Jim Bittermann in Paris contributed to this report.



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Re: DiD any of you hear about Frances not so subtle admonishment to Iran? [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #7422972 - 09/18/07 10:20 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

IMO the french need to stop the Yoots burning cars, buses and even people in their own fucking country, before they can declare war on another country...


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Re: DiD any of you hear about Frances not so subtle admonishment to Iran? [Re: lonestar2004]
    #7423320 - 09/18/07 11:40 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

That's got to be the only time any French official has ever said anything other than "I SURRENDER".

I'm shocked.


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Re: DiD any of you hear about Frances not so subtle admonishment to Iran? [Re: BrAiN]
    #7423467 - 09/18/07 12:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

BrAiN said:
That's got to be the only time any French official has ever said anything other than "I SURRENDER".

I'm shocked.




Watch Battle of Algiers, we seem to be making the very mistakes.


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